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The commander set had some surprising hits for Welder's Workshop, my graveyard-artifact-token cube. Caretaker's Talent > Skrelv's Hive This is simply a delightful card for my cube, rewarding all token strategies and providing the kind of fun value engine I enjoy. Skrelv's Hive has the benefit...

Let's start with Multivalent, my peasant cube: Slam Dunks: Head of the Homestead > Bestial Menace Bestial Menace is a pet card of mine that I used to play alongside Cone of Flame because I like counting. But the hybrid cost on Head of the Homestead is valuable enough to make the switch, and...

Bushy Bodyguard I love this guy. So much flexibility, and so elegantly laid out. Not to mention the very cool squirrel warrior art.

In the event of a draw, victory goes to the cube with the fewest votes. Doesn't make much sense, but hey, I don't make the rules!

They accidentally only printed Reach on Spiders for 20 years, and now it looks weird on anything else. Oops, I just got myself excited for Seasons of Bloomburrow, the return to Bloomburrow in 2026, where all sorts of bug-folk show up, and some of them are Spiders.

Lol. Lmao, even

Seedglaive Mentor Meanwhile I've been staring at Valiant all day without realizing it triggers off Equip abilities.

Osteomancer Adept is an early standout for me. Looks like I'll have to wait for Junk tokens (thought they were a sure thing for the red/green raccoon gang). Meanwhile I'm always thrilled to see more hybrid stuff. The rat, the lizard, and the rabbit are my favorites of the group!

This set was particularly exciting for my Peasant cube for one reason: new Bestow cards! I've always wanted to see Bestow return, since it was introduced at such a low ebb in the game's power level. MH3 really delivered on this axis, and as a bonus delivered some cool multicolor cards and a...

Really hoping to see Glimmers at uncommon and common, and I'm excited to see Delirium in the set, too. Hoping to see a card with a TV on it that has two or more Channel abilities. Maybe in a commander deck? It would be cool of the Wickerfolk are green artifact creatures, like that Timber Paladin.

Saving Space Here for Something Very Intelligent and Well-Considered Which I Will Someday Write Regarding this Cube.

Multivalent Multivalent is a multicolor-driven Peasant cube. It's a showcase of all the great breadth of Magic gameplay, and a kind of proof-of-concept that this game doesn't require expensive rares to be fun. My goal is to include as many multicolor cards as possible without breaking the...

OMG, I really hope it's Junk. Time to go re-read Watership Down.

Maelstrom Mania Invasion of Alara Maelstrom Madness is a 180-card cube that features 30 (!!!) copies of Invasion of Alara Basically, the cube's signature spell does a huge amount of stuff. Your goal is to draft a deck that can do all of the following better than your opponent: A: CAST...

I've been waiting to see TV's in MtG since the first Ravnica set. While I'm not crazy about the fanny packs, and I think the 80's fashion could be made a lot more fantastical, at the end of the day a Multiverse can't just be castles and elves and regurgitated-recannibalized Tolkien stuff. The...

I'm working on mine and I'll submit it to the contest even if it's not finished. Great design prompt!

I guess I think of Hive as a symmetrical zero-variance game in the same family as Chess or Go. To my mind, designing a game like this requires a lot of discipline and refinement, and the final design is elegant and stimulating because complex games arise from simple pieces and rules. Meanwhile...

This contest is really awakening the two Game Design Wolves inside me. One of them really admires games like Hive, and the other really admires games like Necromolds.

Going into spoiler season I didn't think this set would have much for Welder's Workshop because of the emphasis on Energy and {C}, but I was quite mistaken. There's a little treat for every color in here, but Black is getting an absolute overhaul in the creature section that I'm really excited...

Devoid is a weird one. Basically, it's in line with all the game's keywords, which simply define exceptions to the rules that apply only to the keyworded card. Creatures deal combat damage simultaneously, unless they have first strike. Instants and sorceries go to the graveyard when they...